I, Tonya | Film review - Margot Robbie's redneck rebel is skating on thin ice

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There's no need to have class when you have talent.

Margot Robbie burns up the ice as disgraced 1990s figure skater Tonya Harding in the ferociously funny black-comedy biopic I, Tonya. Skating a blade-thin line between send-up and celebration, the Oscar-nominated Robbie totally nails the role of the redneck rebel who shook up her prissy sport - and then became a national hate figure after being implicated in an attack on rink rival Nancy Kerrigan. Robbie’s fellow Oscar nominee Allison Janney is a blast, too, as Harding’s impossibly mean-spirited mom.

Certificate 15. Runtime 119 mins. Director Craig Gillespie

Available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital from Entertainment One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGAlmg8YVk

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